We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart’s Shopping Experience team is focused on making it fast and effortless for customers to find the right items within a single retailer and complete their order with confidence. As a Senior Data Scientist dedicated to Search, you’ll own the analytics an
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We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious analyst to shape the future of financial data at Instacart, driving innovation at the intersection of systems, analytics, and business strategy. In this role, you will architect a
From $201K/yr
We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart’s Marketing Data Science and Analytics team partners across Marketing, Strategic Finance, and Product to power data-driven growth. As a Senior Marketing Decision Scientist II, you will shape how we measure, forecast, and optimize marketing performance across channels, helping Instacart make smarter investment decisions and accelerate customer acquisition and retention. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role on a small, focused team where you will own complex, zero-to-one measurement initiatives and scale proven solutions. You will collaborate closely with channel marketers, growth leaders, finance partners, and data engineers to deliver models and experimentation frameworks that inform multi-million-dollar decisions. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment that still moves like a startup—and you love rolling up your sleeves to turn ambiguo
We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview This is a general posting for multiple Senior Data Science roles open across our 4-sided marketplace. Roles are open at both the L5 (Senior Data Scientist I) and L6 (Senior Data Scientist II) levels. You’ll get the chance to learn about the different problems the
From $185K/yr
We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Why this role is on the menu We are seeking a Senior SOX Manager to lead enterprise-wide programs focused on SOX compliance, IT controls, and controls transformation across modern technology environments. This role sits at the intersection of technical program management, digital risk, and engineering, requiring the ability to translate complex system architectures into scalable, audit-ready control frameworks. The Senior SOX Manager will own program strategy and execution, driving alignment across Engineering, Finance, Data, and Audit stakeholders to deliver automated, efficient, and sustainable control environments. What you'll cook up in your first year Program Strategy & Execution Lead end-to-end SOX programs, including planning, execution, and delivery across ITGCs, ITACs, and key business process controls Drive risk assessments, control scoping, te
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . Senior Software Engineer, Frontend (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading) We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. Coinbase Advisor is the world's first RIA-licensed agentic trading system: an AI advisor living inside the Coinbase app that holds a natural conversation about a user's portfolio, gives personalized financial advice, and executes trades on their behalf. This role is primarily frontend on a full-stack team. You'll own the interfaces that make agentic trading feel fast, clear, and trustworthy for millions of customers, and you'll follow that work into our Go services and LLM layer when the product calls for it. What you'll do: &
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. We own the path from commit to production, including CI and build infrastructure, deployment platforms, and test systems that give engineers fast, trustworthy feedback. We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests. Wherever you land, you’ll build and operate foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, where improvements in build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability scale across thousands of engineers. This is high-leverage systems work with a high bar for reliability and security. What you’ll do <l
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: MarTech Data Science Measurement empowers Airbnb to optimize marketing ROI by generating data-driven recommendations. We lead the way in defining and advancing best practices for measuring and optimizing marketing impact. We collaborate with Marketing, Finance, and Engineering to provide actionable recommendations and tools based on effective, timely, and granular measurements. Our team’s tenets are: Actionable: Deliver insights that drive confident business decisions. Impactful: Prioritize projects based on their expected value to Airbnb. Balanced: Adapt methods to business questions and data realities, acknowledging limitations. Rigorous: Maintain methodological integrity and quantify the sensitivity of findings. Innovative: Invest in advancing measurement science and developing new methods. Influential: Share learnings across Airbnb and the broader data science community. The Difference You Will Make: We are seeking an experienced (Contract) Sr. Data Scientist for a 24 month contract with deep expertise in marketing measurement, with a particular focus on Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and geo-based causal inference. The ideal candidate brings strong statistical intuition and hands-on modeling experience to quantify the incremental impact of Airbnb's marketing investments across channels and geographies. They are fluent in Python, comfortable working with Bayesian frameworks, and can translate complex measurement findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders. A Typical Day: Marketing Mix Modeling: Design, build, and maintain MMM models that est
From $191K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Relevance and Personalization team at Airbnb is responsible for search and recommendation across the entire Airbnb digital platform. Be a leader in the team working on critical, impactful projects with focus on developing end-to-end ranking algorithms and ecosystems for optimizing multiple critical business objectives. The Difference You Will Make: We build cutting-edge AI technologies across the end-to-end search ranking product stack w.r.t. data pipelines, feature and model innovations, serving and experimentation efficiency, leveraging rich signals from various types of data (structured, sequential, image, text, etc) at Airbnb. We collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb to develop the ranking solutions and support a healthy marketplace for hosts and guests to further Airbnb’s mission of creating a world where people can Belong Anywhere. Some past publications from the team can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/airbnb-relevance-publications/home A Typical Day: Work with large scale structured and unstructured data, build and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases. Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact. Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-
From $212K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Difference You Will Make: Airbnb is entering a new era—reimagining how fraud, safety, and quality are measured, protected, and elevated across the digital landscape. Reporting to the Director of Advanced Analytics, Fraud & Safety, you will lead a dispersed team of ~8 advanced analysts tasked with turning safety measurement into governed, self-serve decision systems for Policy, Ops, Legal, Product, and Engineering. You will be a pivotal leader safeguarding Airbnb’s global community. You’ll steer a multidisciplinary team that designs, delivers, and scales state-of-the-art analytics for: Safety (physical & digital) Connected-account & circumvention detection Privacy protection & risk management This role isn’t just about reporting what happened; it’s about building the systems that help Airbnb see around corners. You will democratize data access, build always-on scenario simulators for fraud and safety, and turn incident impacts into seamless signals for continuous improvement. Your insights and systems will empower every stakeholder—from legal to operations, policy to product—to make bold, data-driven, and context-aware decisions in real time. A Typical Day: Own end-to-end analytical workflows for platform safety controls: data ingestion, feature engineering, modeling, experimentation, and visualization. A core mandate is to co-own and drive the enterprise-wide “Safety Single Source of Truth” (SSoT) strategy —a unified, structured data asset and taxonomy that underpins decision-making across Product, Operations, Policy, and Legal. Ensure metrics are future-proof, privacy-compliant, and g
From $200K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Relevance and Personalization team at Airbnb is responsible for search and recommendation across the entire Airbnb digital platform. In this role you'll focus on query intelligence, the front door of search working on critical, impactful projects that turn what a guest types, taps, or says into a precise understanding of their intent, spanning autocomplete and smart compose, query tagging, query expansion, and intent modeling across Stays, Experiences, and Services. The Difference You Will Make: Query understanding is where every search begins, and it directly shapes retrieval, ranking, and ultimately the perfect match between guests and hosts. We build cutting-edge AI technologies across the end-to-end search ranking product stack w.r.t. data pipelines, feature and model innovations, serving and experimentation efficiency, leveraging rich signals from various types of data (structured, sequential, image, text, etc) and increasingly large language models at Airbnb. You'll build the models that parse free-form and natural-language multimodal queries, extract entities and location context, classify intent, and anticipate what guests want before they finish typing. We collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb to develop the ranking solutions and support a healthy marketplace for hosts and guests to further Airbnb's mission of creating a world where people can Belong Anywhere. Some past publications from the team can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/airbnb-relevance-publications/home A Typical Day: Work with large scale structured and unstructured data, build an
From $179K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Airbnb’s Business Technology (Biztech) organization sits at the heart of how we scale our internal operations to match the pace and ambition of our products. Within Biztech, the Finance Accounting Platform team owns the core finance accounting platform — the system that records, processes, and reports the financial lifecycle of every product Airbnb offers to the world. As a Senior Platform Manager on this team, you will be embedded in a rich, cross-functional community spanning the full breadth of Airbnb’s business. You’ll partner daily with Product and Platform Managers across Payments, Trust, Guest & Host, Pricing, Insurance, Hotels, and Customer Service — as well as Finance stakeholders from Revenue Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Payments Legal, Consolidation, Collections, and Cash. You’ll work closely with Data Engineers and Oracle Applications teams to bring platform solutions to life, and collaborate with FP&A and Business Unit teams who depend on the data your platform produces. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of finance, product, and engineering — and who finds energy in being the connective tissue across a large, diverse, and highly capable community. The Difference You Will Make: You will be the strategic and operational owner of the finance accounting platform — the single point of accountability for shaping how it evolves to support Airbnb’s growing portfolio of product offerings. Your impact will be felt across three dimensions: Scaling the platform with Airbnb’s ambitions — You will define and drive the long-term roadmap for the finan
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: BizTech fosters culture and connection at Airbnb by providing reliable corporate tools, innovative products, and technical support for all teams. We drive technical breakthroughs and strategies that redefine what it means to belong anywhere, delivering greater value for the business and our people. The Global Operations team at BizTech manages production services across Airbnb’s corporate environment, delivering reliable operations through Observability, Incident Management, Core Operations, and AI-enabled automation. We partner across BizTech to scale service quality, efficiency, and resilience. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Staff Engineer in Operations, you will lead and mentor a high-performing team to scale our AI-enabled operations model and deliver AIOps solutions that streamline operational workstreams and help BizTech teams focus on their core work with confidence. Ops owns triage and resolution, proactive monitoring across networks, systems, applications, and cloud services via a homegrown observability platform, and drives process excellence through automation and shift-left programs. You will set the technical bar, model operational excellence, and ensure high-quality, reliable service. Your scope includes leading projects ac
From $196K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Threat Detection and Response team (TDR) at Airbnb is focused on automating security detection, responding to security incidents, and working with partner teams to build capabilities that support the incident lifecycle. This is the front-line team that detects, investigates, and responds to internal & external security threats and malicious activity. This is a key role to help define and execute our vision for threat detection and incident response capabilities and process while mentoring other team members. As a senior engineer on the team, you will have direct impact building, optimizing, and growing securing capabilities as you help deliver world-class threat detection and incident response. The Difference You Will Make: You will be a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response (TDR) team. You will get an opportunity to define and execute on novel approaches to detecting, containing and mitigating threats and incidents. You will partner with cross-functional partners across the company to improve the overall security of Airbnb driven by learnings and root cause analysis of investigations and incidents resulting in removal of entire classes of problems. A Typical Day: Perform investigations of security incidents using your knowledge of digital forensics and data analytics. Use your coding, data analytics and investigation skills to hunt, detect and respond to threats. Build automation and detection models to support identification of anomalous activity and response activities to mitigate threats at scale. Hunt for threats in our corporate and prod
From $248K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Our mission at Marketing Technology is to provide a state-of-the-art platform and measurement capabilities to enable marketing and product teams to engage with our customers effectively. Every day, millions of Airbnb customers are reached via our streamlined platform over comprehensive marketing channels such as Email, Push, SMS, Google Ads, Facebook Ads etc. We deliver substantial business impact by enabling numerous stakeholders across the company, including Marketing (Brand and Performance), Guest, Host, Airbnb Org, Policy, and more. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, you'll set the technical direction for the org's transformation into an AI-driven system that turns a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign in minutes, not months. You'll own the technical strategy across a complex, multi-team surface area spanning a CMS platform, no-code authoring tools, rendering infrastructure, and an emerging agentic layer, all operating at a scale where the content produced is consumed by millions of Airbnb users daily. You will partner with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing stakeholders across the company to define multi-year technical strategy, resolve the org's hardest cross-team technical challenges, and raise the bar for engineering excellence across Marketing Technology. A Typical Day: As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on Content Platform, you will: Define and drive technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org, ensuring architectural decisions scale across teams and ali
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